Hi

In my mind I think the companies which sale navigation CD's like Blaupunkt (Germany), Clarion, VDO etc. should be interessted in sale this navigation CD's to everybody!!! I spoke with Siemens (owner of VDO) about this theme. If they would give the specification of the navigation CD format they would open a new market. Think about the following situation:

Normaly you buy a navigation system one time (with a new car or later). But you will buy many times a navigation CD with the newest road map informations. So this means: You invest one time $500 - $1500 for the navigation system and 3 - 5 time $100 for updating the navigation system. If the manufactors of navigation CD's would open the data format of the navi-CD's for public they would sales 3 - 5 time $100 for navi-CD's but many 1000 times because software on the market will be available for using this CD's.

Rolf